Your message dated Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:36:36 +0100
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and subject line Re: initramfs-tools: busybox depends should include
busybox-static
has caused the Debian Bug report #454665,
regarding initramfs-tools: busybox depends should include busybox-static
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454665: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454665
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.90a
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Attempting to install busybox-static when initramfs-tools is installed
results in an uninstall of initramfs-tools, and, consequently, the
Debian kernel package.
Obviously busybox-static (vs. busybox) is not normally needed, but,
again obviously, it is precisely when things (i.e. dynamic libraries)
are broken that it *is* needed (I've been there - it's not pretty). It is
these (potential) circumstances that justify the severity of this bug.
Fortunately, it is super easy to fix. I've installed my own copy of
initramfs-tools on a test machine, where the *only* change is to the
"Depends" line in the control file, from:
Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.4.34-1), busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-initramfs,
cpio, module-init-tools, udev (>= 0.086-1)
to:
Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.4.34-1), busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-static (>=
1:1.01-3), cpio, module-init-tools, udev (>= 0.086-1)
(Note that the busybox-initramfs package is not available.)
I don't know if this qualifies as a "patch" or not, but there it is.
It works great - I was able to install busybox-static (which removes
busybox) with no problem.
Note that this issue relates to a bug filed against busybox-static
(#375568), but it appears to be more properly filed against
initramfs-tools (especialy since #375568 was filed nearly a year and a
half ago and, as with all the busybox and busybox-static bugs, nothing
seems to be happening with them).
Hopefully this can happen ASAP, since it's very easy, and only makes
good things happen!
Thanks very much,
--
Steve Lane
System, Network and Security Administrator
Doudna Lab
Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group
UC Berkeley
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/hda4 ro
-- /proc/filesystems
cramfs
ext3
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
nfsd 203568 13
exportfs 6240 1 nfsd
button 8688 0
ac 5956 0
battery 10756 0
ipv6 240804 50
nfs 225228 8
lockd 61224 3 nfsd,nfs
nfs_acl 4288 2 nfsd,nfs
sunrpc 158588 11 nfsd,nfs,lockd,nfs_acl
ipt_MASQUERADE 4384 1
iptable_nat 7972 1
nf_nat 18732 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 18540 2 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack 61192 4
ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nfnetlink 6520 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
ip_tables 13124 1 iptable_nat
x_tables 15140 3 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_tables
dm_snapshot 17284 0
dm_mirror 21696 0
dm_mod 52928 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
w83781d 27500 0
hwmon_vid 3712 1 w83781d
psmouse 36784 0
e7xxx_edac 6624 0
serio_raw 7460 0
i2c_i801 9456 0
i2c_core 24320 2 w83781d,i2c_i801
shpchp 31892 0
pci_hotplug 29952 1 shpchp
edac_mc 24080 1 e7xxx_edac
iTCO_wdt 10788 0
evdev 10080 0
pcspkr 3872 0
rtc 13624 0
ext3 121960 3
jbd 56104 1 ext3
mbcache 9028 1 ext3
ide_cd 37184 0
cdrom 33600 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 17280 6
ata_generic 8324 0
libata 116720 1 ata_generic
scsi_mod 137388 1 libata
piix 9636 0 [permanent]
e1000 114560 0
floppy 55684 0
generic 5604 0 [permanent]
ide_core 114788 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,piix,generic
uhci_hcd 23824 0
usbcore 126152 2 uhci_hcd
thermal 14184 0
processor 32072 1 thermal
fan 5604 0
-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
postinst_hook = update-grub
postrm_hook = update-grub
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
BOOT=local
DEVICE=eth0
NFSROOT=auto
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii busybox 1:1.1.3-5 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii cpio 2.9-6 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii klibc-utils 1.5-4 small statically-linked utilities
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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no progress, no activity and unclear gain, thus closing.
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